The United Nations' new climate chief issued a stinging response today to U.S. threats to abandon the 15-year effort to forge an international agreement on climate change.
The UN is the only venue capable of executing such an agreement, argued…
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The Environmental Protection Agency recommends reverse osmosis water treatment to remove radioactive isotopes that emit beta-particle radiation. But iodine-131, a beta emitter, is typically present in water as a dissolved gas, and reverse osmosis is…
Although five Transocean executives will donate their safety bonuses—a total of $250,000—to families of 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the executives retain other awards associated with the 86-day oil spill in the Gulf of…
Mushrooms grown within a mold will cushion Dell products during shipping, the computer manufacturer announced today.
"The mushroom cushioning is unique because it is grown and not manufactured in the traditional sense," said Oliver Campbell, Dell's…
UPDATED April 5 with apology from Transocean.
Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, awarded millions of dollars in bonuses to its executives after “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history,” according to an…
Spent nuclear-fuel rods will continue to stack up outside American reactors in wet pools similar to two that failed in Japan's nuclear disaster, while the government and industry pursue recycling technologies expected to become viable by 2050.
This…
The United States dropped to third place behind China and Germany in clean-energy investment last year, according to a report released at midnight by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Other key findings in the report:
Investment in clean energy rebounded…
I've updated this post at top with current sites, as of March 2015, but below that I've left intact the historical post, which I first published during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and then updated in 2013.
The U.S. government's sites have changed…
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday reported finding elevated levels of iodine-131, a product of nuclear fission, in rainwater in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The levels exceed the maximum contaminant level (MCL) permitted in drinking…
A Princeton-educated physicist-turned-farmer is growing more than vegetables on 30 acres in Missouri. Marcin Jakubowski is developing a collection of machines designed to build and support villages that sustain themselves with everything needed for…
